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Footed Dish with Animal Motifs
(Ancient Americas )
This bowl shows three deer without antlers (presumably does) contrasted with a single buck with antlers, all shown on a dotted background. The placing of these motifs into a four-part background may reflect an understanding of the world and its cardinal directions as well.
Dishes on short, ring-shaped bases were common in the Nariño region straddling the border between Ecuador and Colombia. They were carefully shaped, burnished (carefully polished with a stone), and painted with different colors of slip, a thinned out clay. Many of the Nariño vessels show highly abstracted patterns, like this one.
Provenance
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Economos Works of Art [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
Exhibitions
| 2012-2013 | Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. |
Geographies
Ecuador
(Place of Origin)
Colombia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 3/4 x Diam: 7 3/8 in. (9.53 x 18.8 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of John G. Bourne, 2017
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
2009.20.278